On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Bob Morris wrote:
> If you haven't been in LA in eight years you will be stunned by the
> unending
> traffic. My wife had a client 17 miles away, 1/2 was on freeway.
> The drive
> was generally 90 minutes each way.
>
> We giggle at what they call "traffic" here in CT.
Still, I hadn't driven much for more than 10 years - from the early 90s until just a few years ago, when I resumed that troublesome habit. I couldn't believe how much traffic increased across the northeast. "Traffic" in Connecticut might be risible by LA standards, but but compared to the Connecticut of a decade or two ago, it's a pretty big change. There are inexplicable traffic jams on what looks like a godforsaken stretch of I-84 between Danbury and Hartford in the middle of weekday afternoons. Ditto on the Mass Pike. There's a rush hour in Gloucester, Mass. You can feel those ever-rising VMTs everyday, everywhere.
Doug